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Re: WIP: WAL prefetch (another approach)

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-11-13T10:45:51Z
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On 11/13/20 3:20 AM, Thomas Munro wrote:
>
> ...
> 
> I'm not really sure what to do about achive restore scripts that
> block.  That seems to be fundamentally incompatible with what I'm
> doing here.
> 

IMHO we can't do much about that, except for documenting it - if the
prefetch can't work because of blocking restore script, someone has to
fix/improve the script. No way around that, I'm afraid.

regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra
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Commits

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  1. Fix recovery_prefetch docs.

  2. Prefetch data referenced by the WAL, take II.

  3. Add circular WAL decoding buffer, take II.

  4. Fix generation of ./INSTALL for the distribution tarball

  5. Revert recovery prefetching feature.

  6. Sync guc.c and postgresql.conf.sample with the SGML docs.

  7. Add information of total data processed to replication slot stats.

  8. Doc: Review for "Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery."

  9. Add circular WAL decoding buffer.

  10. Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.

  11. Remove read_page callback from XLogReader.

  12. Provide ReadRecentBuffer() to re-pin buffers by ID.

  13. Provide recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs.

  14. Mark factorial operator, and postfix operators in general, as deprecated.

  15. Rationalize GetWalRcv{Write,Flush}RecPtr().

  16. Support PrefetchBuffer() in recovery.

  17. Prevent hard failures of standbys caused by recycled WAL segments